[rescue] Re: Drive Reliability (was SCSI drive for sale at buy.com)

[Curtis H. Wilbar Jr.]

>From: Jeffrey Nonken <jeff_work at nonken.net>
>To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [rescue] Re: Drive Reliability (was SCSI drive for sale at 
buy.com)
>Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 16:17:50 -0400
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>On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 11:44:12 -0400, Charles Shannon Hendrix
><shannon at widomaker.com> wrote:
>
>> At one shop where I worked we used to make bets on when a Micropolis
>> drive died.  None made it past 2 weeks.
>>
>> I heard that they were actually assembling drives in plain offices, just
>> to cram enough out the door to keep from going bankrupt, at one point
>> near the end.
>
>I'm trying to remember if Micropolis was the brand I had with the heads
>that would stick... or maybe that was Mitsubishi.

Sounds like a problem Sun had with quantum 100 meg drives in the SS1
systems.  They didn't use stepper motors... so the solution was a good
slap to break the heads free :-)

I actually had to do this to a drive recently... I'm forgetting what drive
it was though... one I was testing :-)

>
>They'd stick to the platter. When you powered them up, you either had to
>shock the drive enough to unstick the heads, or manually turn the stepper
>motor. Both of those being wonderful things to do to a hard drive.

yeah... they like it like that :-)

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